"there
is little question that Andrew was one of the first writers to realize the greater
significance of Göbekli Tepe ... It is for this reason that Göbekli
Tepe: Genesis of the Gods is such a masterwork" Graham Hancock

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you will find the articles that Andrew Collins has written on various subjects
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Göbekli
Tepe

Göbekli
Tepe: Who Built It, When and Why?

Göbekli
Tepe is a name familiar to anyone interested in the ancient mysteries subject.
Billed as the oldest stone temple in the world, it is composed of a series of
megalithic structures containing rings of beautifully carved T-shaped pillars.
It sits on a mountain ridge in southeast Turkey, just 8 miles (13 kilometers)
from the ancient city of Urfa, close to the traditional site of the Garden of
Eden. Here, for the past ten thousand years, its secrets have remained hidden
beneath an artificial, belly-shaped mound of earth some 330 by 220 yards (300
m by 200 meters) in size. Agriculture and animal husbandry were barely known when
Göbekli Tepe was built, and roaming the fertile landscape of southwest Asia
were, we are told, primitive hunter-gatherers, whose sole existence revolved around
survival on a day-to-day basis. So what is Göbekli Tepe? Who created it,
and why? More pressingly, why did its builders bury their creation at the end
of its useful life?

A
Mandaean ceremony that took place on the banks of the Euphrates river in the late
nineteenth century provides compelling evidence that the early Neolithic cult
sanctuaries of Göbekli Tepe were orientated towards the north, and not towards
the south, the direction of the dog-star Sirius

On
a hilly ridge called Göbekli Tepe in the Taurus Mountains of southeast Turkey,
near the ancient city of Sanliurfa, archaeologists have uncovered the oldest stone
temple complex in the world. Constructed most probably during the second half
of the tenth millennium BC, as much as 7,000 years before Stonehenge and the Great
Pyramid, the site consists of a series of rings of enormous T-shaped pillars,
many bearing carved reliefs of Ice Age animals.

But
what exactly were these stone enclosures used for, and are they aligned to the
stars? Already there have been claims they are aligned to Taurus, the Pleiades
and Orion. Now ancient mysteries writer Andrew Collins brings you all the answers
you need. Having first become interested in Göbekli Tepe back in 2000, he
visited there in 2004, and returned there in 2012 in order to fully establish
the facts before preparing this crucial new article.

Andrew
Collins at Göbekli Tepe, Karahan Tepe, Cayonu, Harran and Sanliurfa in 2004
- A Classic Journey that began The Cygnus Mystery

Read
Andrew's record of his journey through southeast Turkey in 2004, visiting Göbekli
Tepe years before it because popular, and many other key sites in the region.
It was the journey that inspired the writing of The
Cygnus Mystery.

Andrew
Collins reports on why the announcement in December 2009 that Cygnus X-3 is the
source of high energy gamma rays is important to our understanding human evolution,
and the origins of the world's first sky-religion. Click here
to read.

Is
it ET? Deep Space Signal Detected, Source Revealed.Andrew
reports on the detection of a mysterious signal from deep
space by the OZ SETI project in Australia, and exclusively reveals its point of
origin. Beyond this are the implications of these findings for our understanding
of pulsars and neutron stars.

A
completely revised thesis by Andrew Collins on this fascinating subject, including
brand new material on the significance of witnessing cosmic rays as flashes of
light or phosphenes in the ascetic Christian practice of hesychasm as practised
by the monks of Mount Athos in Greece. Fully illustrated. Click here
to read.

Did
Cosmic Radiation change evolution and kick-start religion? An
in-depth report by Andrew Collins, showing that the idea of cosmic rays influencing
evolution was proposed as early as 1930 and seriously put forward by astronomer
and science writer Carl Sagan back in 1973.

Andrew
Collins's important paper on Cygnus X-3 as a cosmic accelerator producing ultra
high energy and high energy cosmic rays. This paper was previously entitled 'In
Defence of Cygnus X-3'. Click here
to read.

In
2000 Andrew Collins's book GATEWAY TO ATLANTIS proposed that around 9000 BC a
comet came out of the north-western sky, broke into pieces and caused untold firestorms,
earthquakes and devestation across North America. Its larger pieces crashed into
the Western Atlantic Basin, completely engulfing the Bahamas and Caribbean and
creating the myth of Atlantis. Now scientists believe that just such a comet did
strike the North American continent during this epoch, confirming Andrew's theories
and providing tantalizing new evidence to support the long-held view that the
Bahamas is Atlantis's sunken kingdom with Cuba its flagship.

CLAIMS
OF AN UNDERWATER CITY DISCOVERED IN THE CARIBBEAN - IS IT A SPOOF?

It
December 2009 it was announced that an underwater city, complete with roads, structures,
and perhaps even pyramids, has been discovered beneath the shallow blue waters
of the Caribbean. Yes, they are fantasy headlines that every ancient mysteries
reader dreams about. But is it true? Or it is a spoof, a psychological experiment,
to test the minds of the gullible and inquisitive, in time for a little Christmas
cheer?

Click here
to read an exclusive report by Andrew Collins concluding that to date this whole
thing is most obviously a spoof to create a little festive merriment and cheer.
Click here
to read the original story.

In Part
One of this article we showed that new calculations reveal how the three "wing"
stars of the Cygnus constellation correlate near perfectly with the positions
of the Pyramids of Giza, both in a vertical and horizontal plane. This raises
the question of whether the Giza pyramid field was created to conform to a grand
design, a structral blueprint, involving the stars of Cygnus in their capacity
as representations of the celestial womb of ancient Egypt's sky-goddess Nuit.
Here the soul of the deceased, as the sun-god, was seen to achieve rebirth.

In
Part Two the author, with the help of chartered engineer Rodney Hale, focuses
in on the core site behind the Cygnus alignments - a potential kom, or
occupational mound just under 3 km southeast of the Giza pyramid field which might
link to the concept of a primeval mound of First Creation (zep tepi).

New
calculations show that the three "wing" stars of the Cygnus constellation
correlate near perfectly with the positions of the Pyramids of Giza. Adding to
the mystery is the discovery that the same three stars were seen to set down into
their corresponding pyramids at the time of their construction, c. 2600-2500 BC.
These findings, established by technical engineer Rodney Hale, make it almost
certain that the Giza pyramid field was created to conform to a grand design,
a structural blueprint, involving the stars of Cygnus in their capacity as representations
of the celestial womb of ancient Egypt's sky-goddess Nuit, for it was here that
the deceased pharaoh, in his role as her son Osiris, god of the underworld, achieved
rebirth and became at one with the stars.

Egypt's
Lost Underworld Rediscovered. Andrew exclusively reveals his discovery
and investigation of a massive, previously unknown complex of caves, chambers
and passageways beneath the Pyramids of Giza, and its implications for the search
for the mythical Hall of Records.

7,000
YEAR OLD CITY FOUND IN NORTHERN EGYPT - A FUll REPORT AND Q&A FROM ANDREW
COLLINS

In
January 2008 Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities announced the discovery of
a remarkable Neolithic city in the Faiyum Oasis. Dating back 7,200 years it has
roads, walls and settlement structures constructed of terracotta and dressed limestone,
while unconfirmed reports speak of the US team from the California of University
finding there 'decorated blocks of granite', as well as firm evidence that it
was once beneath the waters of the Birket Qarun inland sea. The implications of
this discovery are immense, and change everything we know about the evolution
of Egyptian civilization. Andrew Collins follows the story, giving its greater
implications and answering necessary questions that will now be asked, such as
how does this relate to the age of the Sphinx, who built the city, and might there
be a link with the Egyptian Hall of Records and the Watchers and Nephilim of Enochian
tradition. Click here for the full report
and Q & A.

A
recent CT scan survey of Tutankhamun shows that he could not have been murdered
through a blow to a head, but instead might have died following a fall from a
horse or chariot, an opinion championed by Andrew Collins and Chris Ogilvie Herald
in their book TUTANKHAMUN: THE EXODUS CONSPIRACY. Andrew Collins reports.

To
accompany the article TUTANKHAMUN WAS NOT MURDERED - ITS OFFICIAL we are reproducing
the appendix from TUTANKHAMUN: THE EXODUS CONSPIRACY by Andrew Collins and Chris
Ogilvie Herald entitled 'The Death of Tutakhamun', in order to demonstrate the
case for Tutankhamun falling to his death, and Aye, his personal adviser, not
being a murder suspect. Plus there is the full account from the Jewish Talmud
which seems to preserve the story behind Tutankhamun's death.

A
Commentary by Andrew Collins on the Channel Five/The Learning Channel television
documentary, screened in the UK on 3 January 2003 and featuring the sarcophagus
that inspired Bram Stoker to write THE JEWEL OF SEVEN STARS (1903) and the alleged
'true' cause of Lord Carnarvon's death. Posted 11th January 2003.

The
Sphinx Mystery. Review of Robert and Olivia Temple's influential new book.
Includes: Face of the Sphinx. The Facts of the Matter. Is the Sphinx a Doggie?
Geological Inconsistencies. The Tomb of Khufu-kaf. Obscure Origins of the Sphinx.
Whose Face is it Anyway? Anubis as Guardian of Rostau. Sphinx Enclosure as a Moat.
The Chamber That Never Was.

WATCHERS/NEPHILIMThe
Genesis Secret. This
is the title of a book on the Watchers and Nephilim by journalist Thomas Knox,
aka. Sean Thomas. In this article Andrew gives his very latest views on the origins
and fate of the Watchers. It also provides a clue as to why the Watchers are described
as tall albinos, and how their presence in the Near East at the end of the last
Ice Age catalysed the origins of civilization and the building of proto-Neolithic
structures like Gobekli Tepe, the oldest stone temple in the world, which dates
back 13,000 years.

GLASTONBURY'S
LANDSCAPE SWAN AND THE MYSTERIES OF CYGNUS: THE KEY TO 2012

Click
here to read a pre-print
article from Andrew Collins on the mysteries of Glastonbury, in particular claims
that its local hills come together to form a gigantic landscape swan, and its
relevance to both the Cygnus mystery and the events surrounding 2012. It is a
perfect summary of Andrew's views following the publication of his book THE CYGNUS
MYSTERY in November 2006. The article appears in the Spring issue of Glastonbury's
AVALON magazine.

In
July 2004, Andrew travelled with his wife Sue to Virginia Beach, VA, where he
gave a series of talks and meditations on the subject of psychic questing to members
of the ARE (Association for Research and Enlightenment), the public division of
the Edgar Cayce Foundation. Afterwards, in the company of their good friends Greg
and Lora Little, they visited Point Pleasant, West Virginia, home of Mothman,
before going on to explore the extraordinary earthen mounds and structures constructed
over 2,000 years ago by the Hopewell Mound Builders. In this special diary report,
Andrew provides his own unique take on the trip, which ended in Memphis, Tennessee,
with a visit to Graceland and Sun Studio. It also featured a trip to Hopkinsville,
Kentucky, scene of one of the most terrifying alien encounters of all time. The
report comes with special Quicktime flimclips courtesy of Greg Little.

Very little is
known about ancient British gods and goddesses, although one of the most important
was unquestionably Elen of the Ways. For over 25 years Goddess expert and QuestCon07
speaker Caroline Wise has been researching the origins of Elen, and she
now presents the very latest views on this little known deity, who might easily
have existed as long ago as Palaeolithic times.